Crash / Jeremy Thomas and Robert Lantos present ; an Alliance Communications production ; a David Cronenberg film ; co-producers, Stéphane Reichel and Marilyn Stonehouse ; written by David Cronenberg ; produced and directed by David Cronenberg ; produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada ; produced with the participation of The Movie Network TMN.
Edition:
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 47 x 33 cm folded to 12 x 18 cm)
James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette. Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. Adapted from J.G. Ballard's novel. Wide screen (1.66:1). New 4K digital restoration. Special features: audio commentary from 1977 featuring David Cronenberg; Ballard and Cronenberg (footage from a lecture with Ballard and Cronenberg discussing the film adaptation effort and the controversy surrounding both the film and book); press conference from the 1996 Cannes Film Festival; Q&A from 1996; behind-the-scene footage and press interviews from 1996; U.S. and international trailers; on insert, essay by Jessica Kiang.
Summary:
"For this icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine, David Cronenberg adapted J. G. Ballard's future-shock novel of the 1970s into one of the most singular and provocative films of the 1990s. A traffic collision involving a disaffected commercial producer, James (James Spader), and an enigmatic doctor, Helen (Holly Hunter), brings them, along with James's wife, Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger, in a sublimely detached performance), together in a crucible of blood and broken glass--and it's not long before they are all initiated into a kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Controversial from the moment it debuted at Cannes--where it won a Special Jury Prize 'for originality, for daring, and for audacity'--Crash has since taken its place as a key text of late-twentieth-century cinema, a disturbingly seductive treatise on the relationships between humanity and technology, sex and violence, that is as unsettling as it is mesmerizing"--Container.
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